Convertible harrow and land-roller.



No. 700,862. Patented May 27, |902.

H. B. WALTRIP. CONVERTIBLE HARROWvAND LAND ROLLER.

(Application Bled July 29, 1901.)

(No Model.) 2 Shests-Sheat l.

No. 700,862. Patented May 27, |902.

H. B. WALTRIP. CONVERTIBLE HARRW AND LAND ROLLER.

(Application med July 29, 1901.) (No Model.) 2 Sheets-$heet 2.

QL/jd UNITED STATES PAT-ENT OFFICE.

HENRY BUSH WALTRIP, OF EPLEY STATION, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO JOHN W'. TUN STILL, OF EPLEY STA'1`ION, KENTUCKY.

CONVERTIBLE HARROW AND LAND-ROLLER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 700,862, dated May 27, 1902.

Application filed July 29, 1901. Serial No. 70,159. V(No model.) l

To @ZZ wtont it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY BUSH WALTRIP, a citizen of the United States,'residing at Epley Station, in the county of Logan and StateV of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Convertible Harrow and Land-Roller, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improved convertible harrow and land-roller; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of `devices hereinafter fully set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention, showing the same arranged for use as aharrow. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of my invention, showing thesame arranged for use as a land-roller. Fig. 4 isa vertical transverse sectional view of the same. Fig. 5 is a similar View of the same, taken on a different plane.

In the embodiment of my invention I provide a series of transverse bars l, which are disposed side by side and are connected together on one side by hinges 2. The sides of the bars 1 are beveled, as at 3, and thereby and by means of the hinge connection 2 the said bars may be either disposed as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 or they may be disposed to form a cylinder, as shown in Figs-3, 4, and 5. Each of the said bars l is provided on the side opposite its hinge connections with barrow-teeth 4. The said bars l are connected together by flexible elements 5, which are preferably wire cables of suitable length and diameter and which are strung through alined openings in the said bars l and have their ends secured in the end bars. Said openings are at their ends of greater diameter than the said cables to enable the latter to buckle between the bars when the same are disposed to form a cylinder. -When the invention is to be used as a barrow, the bars l are disposed in the same plane as shown in Figs. 1 andY 2, and on the upper and lowersides thereof, at theirends, are placed' longitudinally-disposed bars 6, which are bolted thereto, as at 7. Each of the bars l is provided near .its ends with openings 8, which extend therethrough. The bars 6 not only form rigid connections between the bars l,

.as a land-roller, I provide a pair of circular heads l0. The bars 6 being detached from the bars 1 and the draft-chain being also detached,the said bars 1 being then iieXibly connected together by the hinged sections and the cords or cables 5, may beV disposed to form a cylinder around the heads 10, as shown in .Figs. 3, 4, and 5.

The heads are provided with radialospurs 1l, which enter the openings 8 in the bars l and serve to secure the said bars on the said heads. When thus disposed, the hinges 2 and the exible elements 5 also connect the bars 1 together and retain the same on the heads l0 in cylindrical form. I further provide a draft-pole or tongue 12, which has draft bars yor braces 13, having bearings 14 at their rear ends for spindles 15, with which the heads 10 are provided. Thereby the roller formed by the cylindrically-disposed bars 1 and heads 10 may be readily drawn and the same will rotate, as willi be understood, and is entirely efflcientfor luse as a land-roller for breaking up clods and pulverizing the soil. A seat for the driver may be secured on and carried by the tongue.

Having thus described Ymy invention, I claiml. The combination of a lexiblebod y comprising a series of bars and iieXible connections between' them, said body being disposed in cylindrical form, and heads in said cylindrioally-formed b ody, said heads having projecting spurs and the bars of said flexible body having openings to receive said spurs,

substantially as described.

2. In a convertible harrow and land-roller, a iiexible body for the purposerset forth,com prising a series of bars disposed side by side,

Vbut serve also to close the said openings'S and and provided With transverse alined openmy own I have hereto affixed my signature in ings, a flexible element extending through the presence of two Witnesses.

said openings and eonneetnd said bars together, and flexible eonneetixg elements, on HENRY BUSH WALTRIP 5 one side of said bars and connecting them to.- Witnesses:

gether, substantially as described. W. W. HAZSLIP,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as l JOHN H. WALTRIP. 

